SIX-POINT PLAN DETAILED IN WHITE PAPER

Chronicle (Levin), 17 May 1946, Page 5

SIX-POINT PLAN DETAILED IN WHITE PAPER

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Received Friday, 10.20 a.m. I LONDON, May 16. Details of the plan to create a self-governing federated ! Iiidia are given in a'White Paper read in the House of Com- ; iiiojis to-day by Mr. Attlee. Britain has drawn up a compre- ; lioiisive six-point plan for an Indian Union of' British Provinces 1 a iid Princes' States. The Union will have complete control of IiuJia's foreign affairs, defen.ce and conimunications. " The Viceroy, Lord Wavell, hopes soon to form an interim j government, in which all portfolios, including that of War i Minister, will be held by Indian leaders. The proposals to set up a consti- as a - majoritv of all members Uil.ion-maJdng body are discussed present and voting. - in Ihe White Paper. The six cen- 3. All subjects other than Union tr.il proposals of the plan are as subjects, and all residuarv powers, i'nilows: — should be vested in the Provinces. , 1. A Union of India embracing 4. The States to retain all subboth British, Indian and Princes' jects and powers other than those States, which should deal with ceded to the Union. foreign affairs, defence and com- 5. The Provinces should be free .nmnications, and should have the to form groups with executive legispuwers necessary to raise the latures. Each group could deterfinance required for those subjects. mine the provincial subjects to be 2. The Union should have an taken in common. executive and legislature consti- 6. The constitutions of the tutod from British and Indian State Union and groups should contain l't i iresentatives. Any question rais- provision wherebv any Province iii" a major communal issue in the could, by a majority vote of its le-.'i.slature should require for deci- Legisiative Assembly, call for reu a majority of the representa- consideration of the terms of the iivcs present and voting of each of constitution after the initial period 1 ! i « two major communities, Con- of ten years and at ten-year interuress and Moslem League, as well vals thereafter.